Happy Valentine’s Day eve! This Friday, here are four links to inspire and make you think. You can also follow me on Twitter or add me as a friend on Facebook to get similar status updates with frequent helpful links as well.
- Samuel Richard implores President Obama to create a Department of the Nonprofit Sector. I’m proud to call Sam my fellow nonprofit leader, holding it down for the men in our sector. He’s writing some really good stuff:
We represent over one million organizations with missions ranging from health-care to earth-care, from animal rights to human rights. Yet we have more that unites us than divides us. Whether our organization is providing shelter for an abused woman and her children or providing future generations with the promise of cleaner energy, the core of our mission is the pursuit of a more dynamic community. As significant employers in every American city, we represent nearly 15 million paid employees and another 80 million volunteers annually. We work diligently, responsibly, and with integrity – returning every invested philanthropic dollar to the community nine times over (and that’s a conservative estimate). In other words, we are the economic stimulus you have been looking for.
- Ran across this New Yorker article, Greening the Ghetto (somewhere on Twitter!) about Van Jones (founder and president of Green for All) and his work. “Your goal has to be to get the greenest solutions to the poorest people,” Jones says. “That’s the only goal that’s morally compelling enough to generate enough energy to pull this transition off.
- Also, if you want to see examples of how to write brilliantly about your personal, professional, and creative life all at once and with authenticity, then you really must read Gen Y bloggers Emily Stoddard Furrow and Holly Hoffman’s Work Love Life. That’s what she said.
- Should you be Twittering? The short answer is yes. If you want to find out for yourself, just dive in. The water’s nice, and the people are too. Plus, there really are no hard and fast rules. New York Times is right that Twitter is what you make it. You can use it however you like. Follow me @rosettathurman
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